Weekend Recap: French Tapas Cooking Class
PIN IT!Hi friends!! I hope y’all are having a great start to your Monday! It’s a gorgeous day here in NOVA so I really can’t complain!
Before we begin, make sure you stop by All Day I Dream About Food to check out my newest recipe, whole wheat banana pancakes for two! Seriously, they are AMAZING.
Get the recipe here!
More importantly, I hope you had a wonderful Easter, ate tons of delicious foods and enjoyed a basketful of goodies! This Easter, since my family is about 11 hours away, I got a package full of goodies, including money. Which, trust me, is definitely all I needed! Besides eating my body weight in chocolate and cupcakes this weekend, E and I also did something SO fun on Friday! We went to a French tapas style cooking class in DC! [All are taken from my iPhone, sorry!]
We took our class at Culinaerie, an adorable little kitchen in DC, right of 14th street. Now, for all you Top Chef fans, Carla Hall from season 5 and 8 of Top Chef, also teaches here on occasion! Of course, she wasn’t our instructor. We had a lovely girl named Wendi who graduated from the culinary school I am APPLYING TO THIS YEAR!
Which, if you couldn’t tell by the French themed menu is Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Yep, I’ve sort of been hiding that little factoid but it’s true! I’m applying in July to go to school IN PARIS. Where Julia Child went!!!! So, naturally my amazing husband thought it’d be important to at least understand French cooking, so he bought us this class as an anniversary present! We started off by preparing ratatouille croutons, or a French brushetta.
Um, SO AMAZING. So amazing that Elliot recreated the dish on Saturday at the little BBQ we held at our house! After this delicousness, we made a leek and gruyere tart.
It was good, although I’m pretty sure it was not baked long enough because it was SUPER liquidy. Which, wasn’t our fault since we didn’t have any control over the baking times. Next up was the fig and blue cheese flatbread, which was DEFINITELY one of my favorites from the night.
Now, we had some duck to add to this, but it was a little too rare for me. Like, completely raw in the middle. So, I didn’t eat that but the tart was AMAZING. The bread was so crispy and the blue cheese paired amazingly with the figs! After we devoured this, we moved onto one of our desserts, apple vol au vaunt [or just cute little puff pastries].
These were SO good but I could only eat like one of them. Because I was uncomfortably full and knew our last dessert, the decadent pot de creme, was going to be amazeballs.
And guess what? It definitely was. SO fluffy, so rich and was so amazing paired with the whipped cream and little chocolate covered malt balls. I would seriously make this over and over and over again.
All in all, it was an amazing time! It got me even more excited for French food, which, you know, if I get into school, is really all I’m going to be eating.
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